Book Award Buzz

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Check this page often to find virtual browsing shelves of new and potential award winning books!

 

 

 

The Winners of the 2020 Kirkus Prize Are Revealed

Read the article from Kirkus Reviews, November 5, 2020, and then request the winners by clicking the book covers below:

Luster: A Novel
Stakes is High
I Am Every Good Thing

8 New Books Getting Major Award Buzz

Read the article from From Kirkus Reviews, October 20, 2020, and then request the books by clicking the book covers below:

Owls of the Eastern Ice
The Secret Lives of Church Laides
Shuggie Bain
The Dead Are Arising
Leave the World Behind
My Autobiography of Carson McCullers
The New Wilderness

National Book Award 2020 Longlist: Fiction

Read about the contenders, and then request the books by clicking the book covers below:

Rumaan Alam, “Leave the World Behind”
Christopher Beha, “The Index of Self-Destructive Acts”
Brit Bennett, “The Vanishing Half”
Randall Kenan, “If I Had Two Wings”
Megha Majumdar, “A Burning”
Lydia Millet, “A Children’s Bible”
Deesha Philyaw, “The Secret Lives of Church Ladies”
Douglas Stuart, “Shuggie Bain”
Vanessa Veselka, “The Great Offshore Grounds”
Charles Yu, “Interior Chinatown”

National Book Award 2020 Longlist: Nonfiction

Read about the contenders, and then request the books by clicking the book covers below:

Michelle Bowdler, Is Rape a Crime?: A Memoir, an Investigation, and a Manifesto
Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, The Undocumented Americans
Jill Lepore, If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future
Les Payne and Tamara Payne, The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
Claudio Saunt, Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory
Jenn Shapland, My Autobiography of Carson McCullers
Jonathan C. Slaght, Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl
Frank B. Wilderson III, Afropessimism
Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

Booker Prize 2020 Shortlist

Read about the contenders, and then request the books by clicking the book covers below:

Note: This is a British prize and one of the titles, Burnt Sugar, by Avi Doshi won’t be released in the US until January 26, 2021

The New Wilderness by Diane Cook (Oneworld Publications)
This Mournable Body by Tsitsi Dangarembga (Faber & Faber)
The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste (Canongate Books)
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart (Picador, Pan Macmillan)
Real Life by Brandon Taylor (Originals, Daunt Books Publishing)

 

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